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Monday, November 21, 2011

Kind
of a medium-sized list this week, given that it’s Thanksgiving week—but holy
cow are there a bunch next week, so enjoy the lull before the onslaught! Which
of these do you most want to read? Comment with your pick, and good old
Random.org might choose your name to win a copy!

As
always, Reader’s Choice is an international giveaway, so dig in. (And if a book
in a series catches your eye, you can always request the first in the series
instead.)

She’s the vampire that could destroy a nation. At least, that’s
what Pinkerton detective Finn Dunne thinks of Tara Fox. Capturing her aboard a
ship sneaking its way northward, he’s convinced she’s been sent to take out
President Lincoln. Tara has always been caught between worlds. When her strange
dreams began, she thought of them as abstract visions. But she now knows that
she must travel to Washington, D.C., and protect the president at all costs. If
Tara has to go through Finn—or bring vampire reinforcements—to save Lincoln,
she will do whatever it takes, even if it costs her her heart. PR

Nancy Holder and Debbie Viguie, authors of the Wicked series,
have created a new trilogy, the Wolf Springs Chronicles, which introduces
readers to a town of secrets and the new girl who’s about to start believing in
werewolves. PR-YA

Sexy, powerful, and immortal, Limos is on a crash-course with
destiny. She’s been marked as Satan’s bride and her jealous fiancé wants her
all to himself. The only way this Horseman can keep herself—and everyone
else—safe is to keep her distance. But not even Limos can save herself from the
secrets she’s kept—or resist the seductive allure of one very brave human. Arik
Wagner knows the saying “love hurts” better than most, yet he never thought
stealing a kiss from Limos would land him in Hell. Literally. With the
Apocalypse looming and Satan demanding his bride, will Arik and Limos surrender
to the desire smoldering between them? Or will giving in to passion unleash
hell on earth? Second in the Lords of Deliverance series. PR

Once upon a time, the Blood Sorcerer vanquished the kingdom of
Elden. To save their children, the queen scattered them to safety and the king
filled them with vengeance. Only a magical timepiece connects the four royal
heirs, and time is running out. As the dark Lord who condemns souls to
damnation in the Abyss, Micah is nothing but a feared monster wrapped in
impenetrable black armor. He has no idea he is the last heir of Elden, its last
hope. Only one woman knows—the daughter of his enemy. PR

Teagan, Finn, and Aiden have rescued Tea’s and Aiden’s father
and have made it out of Mag Mell alive, bringing a few new friends with them.
But The Dark Man’s forces are hot on their heels. Back in Chicago, Teagan
soon realizes that she is not the target of the goblins. In fact, the goblins
call her princess, and call her to come out and play. Something is happening to
her, and she suspects it’s an infection she picked up in Mag Mell. An
infected cat-sídhe becomes her test subject, and Teagan is determined
to cure it of the sickness that seems to rot its flesh. If she can find a cure
for the cat-sídhe, then maybe there is hope for her. Second in the Goblin Wars
series. UF-YA

Samhain approaches, bringing with it the final melding of the
mortal and othernatural worlds. No one knows just how much power the night
holds. Violent murders occur in Paradise City as counterfeit comarré are
systematically hunted. The police and the Kubai Mata have more than enough
trouble to keep themselves occupied. As war erupts at home, Malkolm and
Chrysabelle head to New Orleans to recover the Ring of Sorrows. Chrysabelle is
forced to make a life and death decision and will realize that her relationship
to Malkolm may have fatal consequences. The clock is ticking. Third in the
House of Comarre series. UF

For more than eighty years H.P. Lovecraft has inspired writers
of supernatural fiction, artists, musicians, filmmakers, and gaming. In the first
decade of the twenty-first century the best supernatural writers no longer
imitate Lovecraft, but they are profoundly influenced by the genre and the
mythos he created. This volume presents some of the best of this new
Lovecraftian fiction from authors including China Mieville, Caitlin R. Kiernan,
Sarah Monette, Kim Newman, Cherie Priest, Michael Marshall Smith, Charles
Stross, Rafael Tavares, and David Barr Kirtley. SF-UF-H

Sir Dennis Darby has been murdered, the Automaton has been
destroyed, and Sarah Stanton has turned her back on a life of privilege and
comfort to try and find her way in the unforgiving streets of New York. But
Lord Eschaton, the villain behind all these events, isn’t finished with her
yet. His plans to bring his apocalyptic vision of the future to the world are
moving forward, but to complete his scheme he needs the clockwork heart that
Sarah still holds. But she has her own plans for the Automaton’s clockwork
heart — Sarah is trying rebuild her mechanical friend, and when she is attacked
by The Children of Eschaton, the man comes to her rescue may be the one to make
her dreams come true. Second in the Society of Steam series. Steampunk.

The penultimate chapter in Moody’s horror series. Forty days
have passed since the world died. Billions of corpses walk the Earth.
Everything is disintegrating. A group of eleven men and women have
survived against the odds. On an almost daily basis, they attack the dead with
brutal ferocity, tearing through them with utter contempt. Somewhere nearby,
out of sight and out of earshot, is another group that has adopted a completely
different survival strategy. Where the others have used brutality and strength,
these people have demonstrated subtlety, planning, and tactics. A series of
horrific events force the two groups together. Backed into a corner and
surrounded by hundreds of thousands of corpses, they all know that their final
battle with the dead is about to begin. UF-H

With a divided StarClan driving a treacherous rift between the
four warrior Clans, the spirits of the Dark Forest are gaining strength.
Ivypool’s role as a spy becomes more dangerous with each passing day, and
Dovewing is haunted by nightmares about the mountains. Then an outsider appears
in ThunderClan’s midst, spreading discord and pushing the Clans farther apart.
As tensions mount and Clanmates turn against one another, the warrior cats will
be forced to choose whose word they can trust — before it’s too late. Fifth in
the Warriors: Omen of the Stars series. F

The first non-themed collection of author Sarah Monette’s short
fiction. From Hugo-award winner Elizabeth Bear’s introduction: “Monette’s prose
is lapidary, her ideas are fantastical and chilling. She has studied the craft
of fantastic fiction from the pens of masters and mistresses of the genre. She
is a poet of the awkward and the uncertain, exalter of the outcast, the outre,
and the downright weird. There is nothing else quite like Sarah Monette’s
fiction.” F

Royce Melborn, a skilled thief, and his mercenary partner,
Hadrian Blackwater, make a profitable living carrying out dangerous assignments
for conspiring nobles — until they are hired to pilfer a famed sword. What
appears to be just a simple job finds them framed for the murder of the king
and trapped in a conspiracy that uncovers a plot far greater than the mere
overthrow of a tiny kingdom. Can a self-serving thief and an idealistic
swordsman survive long enough to unravel the first part of an ancient mystery
that has toppled kings and destroyed empires in order to keep a secret too
terrible for the world to know? Sullivan’s six-volume Riyria Revelations series
was published with limited distribution before being picked up by Orbit earlier
this year. This volume incorporates the first two novels in the series,The Crown ConspiracyandAvempartha.
The four subsequent titles will be published in two omnibus editions in
December and January. F

See
anything you want? International Reader’s Choice―you tell me. As always, four
entries possible and please include your e-mail: +1 for comment, +1 for blog
follow, +1 for Twitter follow @Suzanne_Johnson, and +1 for a Tweet or RT about
the contest. Now….go!

I'm somewhat torn between New Cthulhu and the Hearts of Smoke and Steam. But I think the latter looks like way much more fun :) Cthulhu mythos can get a tiny bit depressing but steampunk superheroes can't be bad :D so Hearts of Smoke and Steam it is :)

Oh my gosh! Hard hard pick this time. I am at a tie between Unleashed and Immortal Rider. Both of these books sound so awesome. Thanks for the chance to win!+1 Comment+1 GFC: LadyVampire2u+1 Twitter: @LadyVampire2u+1 Tweet: https://twitter.com/#!/LadyVampire2u/status/138962874608529408